Pierre Guffroy
Know for: Art
Born: 1926-04-22
Place of birth: Paris, France
Also know as:
Tess: From Novel to Screen (2004)
Documentary about Roman Polanski's film adaptation of the 1891 novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.
Filming 'Tess' (2004)
Documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
Tess: The Experience (2004)
A documentary that interviews the cast and crew of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
Mouchette (1967)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Paul and Michelle (1974)
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle...
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is...
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an...
Cesar and Rosalie (1972)
A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to...
Mado (1976)
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the...
And Hope to Die (1972)
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
The Great Chase (1968)
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the...
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
The Slap (1974)
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually...
Rider on the Rain (1970)
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
The Vampire of Dusseldorf (1965)
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
The Denunciation (1962)
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing...
I Love All of You (1980)
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised...
Death and the Maiden (1994)
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Frantic (1988)
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops,...
Alphaville (1965)
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by...
The Uninvited (1969)
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the...
The Tenant (1976)
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of...
Love Me Strangely (1971)
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws...
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers...
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1963)
Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of...
Valmont (1989)
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that...
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him...
Atlantic Wall (1970)
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly...
L'Argent (1983)
A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for...
Tess (1979)
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the...
The Milky Way (1969)
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of...
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the...
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Cesar and Rosalie (1972)
A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to...
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis...
Max My Love (1986)
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
Shadow Play (1996)
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also...
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy (1971)
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life,...
The Burned Barns (1973)
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Serenade of Texas (1958)
Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big...
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Hanna K. (1983)
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United...
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if...
588 rue Paradis (1992)
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He...
Mother (1991)
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in...
Black Orpheus (1959)
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful...
Giorgino (1994)
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker...